6th IRU Euro-Asian Road Transport Conference & Ministerial Meeting
Policy Dialogue on Strengthening Transport Connectivity...1 641,5 hrs 2 406 hrs Total time: 7 124...
Transcript of Policy Dialogue on Strengthening Transport Connectivity...1 641,5 hrs 2 406 hrs Total time: 7 124...
Policy Dialogue on
Strengthening Transport
Connectivity
Esmaeil Tekyehsadat
Director Transport and Comunication
ECO
(Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26-27 June 2013)
ECO-IRU
• The 3rd ECO-IRU Regional Conference on TIR Convention will be held on 8-9 October, 2013 in Tehran.
• Participation in the 7th IRU Euro Asian Road Transport Conference, scheduled for 12-13 June 2013 in Amman
• Pakistan to expedite specifying the dates and venue of the National TIR Capacity Building Workshop, to be organized jointly by the ECO Secretariat and IRU
Key Study on Transport
Connectivity
ECO RMT / NELTI-3
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• 31 Dec 2011 137 project Questionnaires received from
over 30 road transport companies of 7 ECO
Member states
• 6 Jan 2012 First interim results based on the data from
40 Questionnaires presented at the
173rd ECO CPR
→ (40 data entries x 4,5 hrs = 180 working hrs; 3
officers)
• End Jan 2012 Data Analysis by NEA begins
• 1st Quarter 2012 ECO/IRU Report and recommendations
for National Action Plans of the ECO
Member States
–
(c) International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2012
CPMM Methods
Pushing controls away from the
border
Time Structure
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1 641,5 hrs
2 406 hrs
Total time: 7 124 hrs
(c) International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2012
Waiting/time
in queue
23%
Average speed =14,5 km/hrs
Loading/discharge 6%
465,7 hrs Procedures
(inc. escort &
repairs)
37 % 2 610,8 hrs
Cost Structure
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28,3%
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ECO facilities for border crossing operation
• Uniform Transit Visa Sticker (developed by
the Islamic Republic of Iran and under
consideration of Member states)
• Uniform Transit Insurance ( developed
white Card same as green Card in EU and
waiting for member states reports and
consolidated report and finally
implementation
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ECO facilities for border crossing
operation (Count's)
• Unified Transit Tariff( develop based upon
ECO initiation transit corridors)
• Unified Transit Custom System
(developed based upon IRU and UNCTAD
experience)
• Unified Intelligent Transport System
(Included in the Agenda of the Head of
ECO Telecommunication , 2011)
Further work for operational
objectives to become ECO Transit
– Trade Hub
1. To make Secure Supply Chain
2. Reducing logistics Cost (Cost Efficiency) , increase business responsiveness, reliability and security)
3. Create Value added in Logistic and related business
4. Developing combined logistic centers and supply chain
ECO RMT monitored
routes as of 31.12.2011
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Key Road Corridors connectivity
• Following the successful launch of the ECO Demonstration Truck Caravan in 2010, the 8th Ministerial Meeting on Transport and Communication (28-29 June 2011, Ashgabat) decided to establish two road transport corridors, one between Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul, and the other between Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic.
• Two meetings of the HLWG meetings have been held to discuss technical matters pertaining to operationalizations of the ITI Road Corridor. Application of the TIR Convention on the test basis has been agreed as the mutually agreed transit system to develop the ITI Corridor.
ITI Road Corridor
• expedite implementing the Action Plan of ITI Road Corridor agreed in Islamabad, and the Joint Statement of ITI Road Corridor signed among the Customs Administration of enroute countries on the occasion of 6th International Forum on the Role of Custom Administrations on Facilitating and Promoting trade among the Silk Road Countries (Istanbul, 29-30 October 2012).
KTAI Road Corridor
• Kyrgyz-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Iran Road
Transport (KTAI) Corridor to expedite
implementing the Action Plan signed
during the 1st HLWG Meeting of the
enroute countries (Herat, 2012).
White Card
• It asked the Secretariat to continue organizing such training courses and regional and national capacity building workshops on the White Card.
• Appreciating the Secretariat for preparing a comprehensive report on the White Card
• establishing the Financial Guarantees for the White Card Scheme as envisaged in Annex II of the Scheme
• carrying out the activities specified in the Action Plan for implementation of the White Card along this corridor
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Candidate
Afghanistan has borders with six countries, of
which four are already TIR Contracting Parties.
The two others are TIR Candidates.
Candidate
TIR System in
Afghanistan/Pakistan • the TIR system is expected to be
reactivated in Afghanistan at the end of
2013.
ADR
• workshop on ADR, Modernization of
Border Crossing Points and digital
tachograph system, will be held in Ankara
in November 2013.
Expert Group on Unified Rail
Law
Key
Railway connectivity • Implementation of the infrastructure
project “Kerman – Bam – Zahidan Railway” with the length of 540 km enabled to connect Pakistan Railway network to that of Turkey and onward to Europe and Central Asia through railway network of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• In order to utilize Kerman – Bam – Zahidan route a demonstration run of the ECO Container Train on Islamabad-Tehran- Istanbul route has been organized in August 2009 from Islamabad. Since 2010 the ITI Container Train has started running in both directions.
Bandar Abbas-Almaty
Istanbul-Almaty
• ECO Container Train on Bandar Abbas-
Almaty route to expedite the efforts for
cargo mobilization to start regular
operation of the said train
• to remove the existing obstacles to regular
operation of the ECO Container Train on
Istanbul-Almaty route
Qazvin-Rasht-Astara (Iran)-Astara
(Azerbaijan) Railway
• 80% progress in substructure construction
on Qazvin-Rasht segment of the Qazvin-
Rasht-Astara (Iran)-Astara (Azerbaijan)
Railway has been achieved and the detail
design of Rasht-Astara has already been
concluded
COTIF
• The ECO Meeting noted with satisfaction that the accession of Azerbaijan and Pakistan to the COTIF is at final stages.
Rail/ road networking
• expedite preparing the draft TOR for the
"Regional Partnership Forum for Implementation
of the ECO Railway Network Development Plan”
• the draft ECO Road Network Development Plan
has also been circulated in February 2013.
• effective implementation and monitoring of the
ECO Railway Network Development Plan and
the ECO Road Network Development Plan
logistic centre
• layout and other necessary information on
the logistic centre planned for construction
at the Iran-Pakistan border
ECO and the UIC
• activities envisaged in the Action Plan
signed between the ECO and the UIC in
June 2012
UNECE
• Actively participation in the ECO Contact
Group and the sessions of the UNECE
WP.30 and AC.2 in Geneva.
ECOLPAF
• the 20th COM (Baku, October 2012)
approved the establishment of the ECO
Logistics Providers Associations
Federation (ECOLPAF) as an affiliated
body of ECO and its Charter.
ECO Zone
• Iran to expedite providing the Action Plan
for activating the ECO zone in Chabahar.
It also requested the landlocked Member
States to expedite conveying their specific
needs and proposals for utilizing the
facilities of the ECO Zone
ICT infrastructure connectivity
• High Level Working Group of ICT Communication Regulatory Authorities
• Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on ECO ICT Security and Cyber Crime
• establishment of ECO ICT Providers Association of the private Sector in October 2013
• availability of fiber optics connectivity with neighboring ECO Member States except Pakistan.
• The Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with the decision of the 1st ICT Ministerial Meeting, have installed a STM64 fibre optic line on the Mirjaveh border point with Pakistan and requested the latter to connect their network to the said line.
ICT connectivity (Cont,d)
• Iran has fibre optic connectivity with all
ECO Member States, except Pakistan
• Currently, Iran has installed a STM64 fiber
optic line on the Mirjaveh border point with
Pakistan which would enable to connect
Pakistan to this network
ECO-IDB/UNEESCAP and
ECO/IDB-UNECE
• inter-agency meetings in the context of the
trilateral MoUs among ECO-
IDB/UNEESCAP and ECO/IDB-UNECE
would be organized in the 2nd half of 2013
Thanks
Esmaeil Tekyeh Sadat
Director of Transport & Communication
PhD (Organization Development)
Web: www.ECOsecretariat.org
Email: [email protected]
1 Golbou Alley, Kamranieh, Tehran, IR.Iran
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